Nebraska Democratic Platform Endorses People’s Government
The Nebraska Democratic state convention in Omaha on March 6 1908 pledges loyalty to party principles, condemns predatory wealth, and calls for direct senate elections, anti monopoly laws, tariff reform, income and inheritance taxes, and stronger federal and state regulation of corporations and railroads. It supports postal savings, immigrant protections, eight hour day, workers rights, and independence of the Philippines with naval bases kept.
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Nebraska
Jefferson
United States
Ita
Republican Party
Congress
Postal Savings Bank
Aldrich
Fowler
Treasury
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Porto Rico
Panama Canal
Philippine Islands
Cuba
The
Philippines
Foreign workers demand poor farm care in Newcastle incident
A Newcastle dispatch reports Adams Hainer facing 40 foreigners who marched to city hall demanding work and meals at the poor farm. Only 15 were sent there as capacity limited. The piece ends with political asides about the Knox boom and Pennsylvania politics.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Newcastle
Adams Hainer
Remarkable Red Bank Man Credits Kidney Pills
Shepard Kollock of 44 Wallace St Red Bank New Jersey aged 61 says forty years of kidney trouble left him with back pain frequent night awakenings and heavy kidney secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he reports complete relief and endorses the remedy sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Shepard Kollock
Wallace St
Red Bank
N. J
Mr. Kollock
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Cuticura Cure Promises Relief From Eczema
A Newark reader touts Cuticura Ointment and Soap as a permanent cure after long eczema suffering. The ad notes rapid improvement after two ointment boxes and one soap cake, citing a December 23 1907 date.
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Cuthura
W. H. Dean
Newark
Dec
Grape-Nuts Promote Longevity and Vitality in Old Age
A healthful food claim extols Grape-Nuts for ease on the digestive system and brain nerve nourishment. Testimonials from a 74 year old Iowa man and a 92 year old neighbor cite strength, regularity, and clearer thinking after using Grape-Nuts and Postum, with a prompt to read The Road to Wellville.
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Iowa
Pastum Co
Battle Creek, Mich
Wellville
Chicory Becomes Coffee Alternative in Europe and America
Historical note traces chicory use from Dutch origin through Napoleonic blockade to supply coffee substitutes. It describes the blend with coffee, healthful effects, legal labeling under the pure food law, and mentions domestic anecdotes including a barbed wire pocket invention and a Scottish lawyer's courtroom anecdote.
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Europe
Holland
Atraicht
United States
Parkoven
Witleena
Merita
Quack Cure Ads Crowd Early 20th Century Pages
A collage of patent medicine pitches and dubious testimonials fills the page. Vendors tout cures for catarrh headache and constipation while promoting tonics and household tonics. Silly anecdotes and mock dialogue punctuate the ad laden content.
White Lead explained and tested by the Dutch Boy standard
A consumer guide outlines how pure White Lead is produced and why many brands are adulterated. It describes a blow pipe test to prove purity, promises a free blow pipe kit and booklet from the National Lead Company, and notes the brand name Dutch Boy as a guarantee of purity.
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National
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York
Mexican Rose Cream Offer From Wichita Company
Readers are invited to order a trial set by sending 75 cents in stamps money orders or cash. The package includes a 50 cent jar of Mexican Rose Cream a 50 cent jar of Menthomerica and a 25 cent jar of Mexican Talcum Powder prepaid by mail. If not satisfied refunds are offered. Origin of the elevator traced to Central Europe with Napoleon I notes about the chaise volante at Schoenbrunn built around 1760.
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The
Mexican Mfg. Co
Wichita
Kansas
Europe
Napoleon I
Maria Louise
Schoenbrunn
Vienna
Empress Maria Theresa
Remarkable Grass Seed Catalog Promises Big Yields
Town farmer touts 100 acres with 200 tons of hay and seed sales of 3 00.08 worth. mail order from John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wis offering original catalog samples of Billion Dollar Grass and Silver King Barley. Also includes jokes and light satire from The Telephone Girl’s Amendment and other pieces.
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Goml
John A. Salter Seed Co
Lacrose
Wis
America
la Crome
Wis. K
Striking Humour Bits and Daring Mountain Rescue Tale
A collection of brief snippets includes a schoolmaster quip about dead languages and an undertaker, a dramatic wolf hunt mishap in central Servia with a lifesaving descent, a courtroom joke from St. Louis with John Smith, domestic banter on gender clothes, a Catholic Standards quip, Garfield Tea as a health claim, a Tryon Edwards maxim on character and ambition, and a line about oblivion before death.
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Servia
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Maggie Gilmer
West Thion, S. C
Mrs. Pinkham
Josephine Hall
Bardstown
Lydia E. Pinkbar
ALMC
Atlanta
Georgia
Hunt
A. B. Richards Medicine Co
Sherman, Texas
Rire A
Tate Whitt
Knox
Pennsylvania
Herr Schmidt
Erna
John Hunter
John
Susanna
Freedman Bureau
Bureau
Victoria
N.S. W
Mrs. Smallpurse
Mr. Smallpurse
New York Weekly
Littel
Rhuma-Sulphur Company
2Nd St. St. Louis, Mo
Supreme Court
F. J. Cheney &Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Watoina, Kisvas & Mantis
Wirelessle
Draggiru
al Phregeione
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Harper's Weekly
Aspinet Mills
Ninth Ave
E.w.grove
Telephone Central
Washington Star
Harvard Lampoon
Koffi
St. Louis
John Smith
Mrs. Spenders
Mr. Spenders
Catholic Standard and Times
Tryon Edwards
Agie Lal
Fic
Carters
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mass
Paxtine
Jacobs OS
Aera Saints
Fromek
Orbayo
Agecoff
Pestcatt
Reneace Franck Sohme & CO
Fluhing, N.Y
A Aito LV
Elon
Nagin
Brockton
Ee Paooters
Mila
W. A. Dryden
Genie
Rey Discovery
A. NL
Syracuse
Cardus
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